Cutter-gage for ice-cream, &amp; c.



No. 645,503. Patented Mar. l3, I900.

T. F. CROWLEY. GUTTER GAGE FOR ICE CREAM, 81.0.

(Application filed May 11, 1899.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FEIcE.

TIMOTHY FRANCIS CROWLEY, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

CUTTER-GAGE FOR ICE-CREAM, 8.1.0.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 645,503, dated March 13, 1900. Application filed M y 11, 1899. Serial No. 716,338. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY FRANCIS CROWLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cutters for Ice-Cream and Similar Material, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to cutters for icecream and similar substances; and the object thereof is to provide an implement of this class whereby blocks of ice-cream and similar material may be readily divided into slices, slabs, or cakes of any desired or predetermined bulk.

My invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like reference characters denote like parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of an implement constructed according to my invention; Fig. 2, a top View thereof, and Fig. 3 an end view thereof looking in the direction of the arrow.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, I provide a knife-blade a of any desired form, but preferably of the form shown in Fig. *1, which corresponds to the cross-section of an ordinary block of ice-cream. To one end of the blade a I secure a handle I), as at o, and to the top thereof, approximately at the opposite end, I secure a handle 01 by means of scalej, which may be read in connection with erate, respectively, in connection with the rod h and supplemental rod is.

The operation of my improved implement will be evident from the foregoing description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the following state* ment thereof.

The rod h is adjusted through the collar g until the supplemental rod 10 and markerl are at such a distance from the blade Ct as shall correspond to the thickness it is desired the cakes to be out shall have. The bindingscrew m is then tightened down and the supplemental rod is is vertically adj usted to so position the marker Z that when the blade at has passed through the block of material to be cut it shall slightly impress the surface of said block and mark the section'line at which the next slice is to be severed.

The scale j has its zero-marks adjacent the supplemental rod 70, and the exact distance between the collar g and supplemental rod is or, with the scale arranged accordingly, and the-exact distance between the marks Z and blade a may be readily determined, and the marker set accordingly.

My invention is simple in construction-and well adapted to accomplish the object in view,

and the construction and adaptation thereof may be substantially varied without depart= ing from the scope thereof.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The herein-described instrument, compris ing a knife-blade provided at either end with a handle, an upwardly-directed standard con= nected with the upper edge of said knifeblade, a laterally-directed graduated rod adjustably connected therewith, a downwardlydirected supplemental rod adjustably connected with said rod and provided at one end with a marker, and independent devices for securing said rod and supplemental rod in adjusted position, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribingwitnesses, this 10th day of May, 1899.

TIMOTHY FRANCIS CROWLEY.

Witnesses:

F. A. STEWART, O. O. OLSEN. 

